Nostalgic for Spring

I have really been itching for Spring lately. I think this Winter's unusual weather has brought on cabin fever a little earlier this year. It will snow, then melt away, temperatures sometimes getting into the high 30's to low 40's. Well, except this past week. It has hardly gotten above 0. Burr! Let me just tell you; there is nothing very romantic about an old farmhouse in the dead of Winter!. Once you find out how drafty the place is, it takes the blissful feeling outta ya faster than a skim-milk-ghost! We have one room downstairs that is quite cold. I don't think the walls were insulated at all! Last Winter, the ice on the roof started to melt and some water backed up under the shingles. So I had a large mixing bowl set up to catch the drips. I forgot to dump it after Darlin cleared the roof off. Well, that night it froze. And I mean solid. *Sigh*. Re-insulating is on our home repair/improvement list.
   Anyway, lately I find myself daydreaming more and more about getting our garden in, cloth diapers drying on the line, and sound of the "sweet weather birds" (what my Great-Grammie Ruth used to call White Throated Sparrows) singing upon their return. I treasure those few, lovely weeks in Spring when it is warm enough to leave the windows open in the afternoon, the grass is slowly appearing, but it is still too cool for the pesky skeeters and black flies to come out.
    I love the fresh breeze drifting in the house, the sun shining bright, as I tackle Spring cleaning and everything smelling fresh and new. Not to mention I miss my chickens wandering around the yard, eating bugs and greens, scratching around and fluffing themselves in the warm sun.
  I'm sick of white. I'm sick of cold, and ice. I'm sick of short days and everything looking dead. I'm craving green, and I'll even take all the mud now, too.

Finished all the dishes. Thought I'd snap a picture of the sink after I shined it. Because even with only three people in the house, it doesn't stay this way very long! A shiny sink makes me happy. ;)

 Turkey sandwich for lunch with tomatoes, romaine lettuce, onions, bacon and cheese. And iced tea, of course. Mmmm.

 A handful of whole cloves in a small skillet of water set to simmer on the cookstove makes for a nice aroma wafting through the kitchen.

Spring, please get here soon, I miss you so much!!!!!!!!!